15 things mums really want for Mother's Day

I was once woken up on Mother's Day with 'breakfast in bed'.

By
Jo Middleton

10/03/2017

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My daughter, then around three or four year old, had made me what she delightedly announced as a cheese stew. She said stew – she had poured some milk into a bowl, added some lumps of cheese and some bits of Easter egg, and then liberally sprinkled the whole thing with some dried herbs.

Yum!

She presented me with the stew, and a spoon, and stood watching expectantly as I tried to wake myself up.

'Are you going to eat it then?' she said, looking into my very soul with her huge brown eyes.

'Oh yes, of course,' I said, 'it looks delicious. I'm just waking up a bit.'

'Eat it now,' she said, giving me a death stare.

I had no choice but to spoon the stew into my mouth.

'Mmmm...lovely!'

Welcome to Mother's Day with small children.

If this sounds all too familiar, then you've probably fantasised, as I have, about what you'd really like for Mother's Day. Yeah yeah, homemade cards are fine, but let's be honest, it would be nice to get something decent for once, wouldn't it?

Here are 15 ideas for things mums really want for Mother's Day this year. Feel free to forward this post to your partner and kids. You're welcome.

A day to yourself. A whole one, with no text messages asking where the kids' shoes are or if there is any bread.

1. A bottle of good gin.

2. A proper lie-in. Not the promise of one, where a toddler actually comes in after 20 minutes saying 'Daddy is asleep downstairs and Peppa Pig has finished!'

3. Chocolate.

4. Proper grown up chocolates that no one else is allowed to eat – a nice change from loose Milky Way stars that you find at the bottom of your handbag.

5. A massage.

6. And a haircut.

7. And may as well get your nails done while we're at it.

8. Hell, why not just book a spa day?

9. A new swimming costume for the spa day.

10. Complete silence for an hour. Perhaps it could be a game?? (Unlikely to go down well with small children.)